Next US moon landing will be by private companies, not NASA

The head of NASA Jim Breidenstein said that the USA intends to get back to the moon and it will happen, according to him, very soon.

Almost 50 years after Neil Armstrong became the first human to step onto the surface of Earth's satellite, President Trump signed a mandate to send US astronauts back to the planetoid.

"We're going at high speed", said Zurbuchen.

Zurbuchen said Thursday that a mobile lunar laboratory remains one of NASA's goals for Moon exploration, though such a mission would likely be developed through a more traditional process.

Nasa has not said anything about the condition of the other instruments on board, which include a French-made seismometer to study Marsquakes and a German self-hammering mole to measure heat's escape from the planet. Maintaining a permanent human presence in lunar orbit will require a lot of support services that NASA can't handle on its own.

The announcement came just three days after NASA landed a spacecraft on Mars. The company has previously worked with NASA to develop Moon commercial cargo transporation capabilities and was the first private company authorized by the United States government to land on the Moon. That kind of public and private partnership is the future, according to NASA. SpaceX and Northrop Grumman, formerly Orbital ATK, have built space station shipments since 2012. Under President George W. Bush, companies were awarded contracts to fly cargo to the International Space Station.

"Today's announcement marks tangible progress in America's return to the Moon's surface to stay", NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said in press conference. These contracts will be geared to filling the needs of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program over the next ten years of its development.

Maston Space Systems: A Mojave-based company focused on reusable rocket technology and reliable planetary landers for the Earth, Moon, Mars, and beyond.

Most of the companies involved have never flown a spacecraft of this complexity and scale, and Bridenstine acknowledged that some of the CLPS missions will likely fail to achieve a "soft" landing on the lunar surface. The photo of McCandless floating by himself in the blackness of space, with the blue Earth in the background, is one of NASA's most iconic. Expectations should not exceed 50 percent, Zurbuchen stressed. "At the end of the day the risk is high, but the return is also very high for a low investment".

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